One of the most glaring contradictions in the Mar-a-Lago controversy has been the Justice Department demanding absolute and unwavering secrecy over the FBI raid while officials have been leaking details on the raid. The latest example is a report in the New York Times that the Justice Department recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings, citing multiple sources connected to the investigation. Most judges would be a tad annoyed by the contradiction as the government continues to frame the public debate with its own selective leaks while using secrecy to bar other disclosures. That includes sections of the affidavit that detail the communications with the Trump team, information that is already known to the target.
Someone is clearly lying. The Trump Team said that it was cooperating and would have given access to the government if it raised further objections. The Justice Department has clearly indicated that time was of the essence to justify this unprecedented raid on the home of a former president. Yet, Attorney General Merrick Garland reportedly waited for weeks to sign off on the application for a warrant and the FBI then waited a weekend to execute that warrant. It is difficult to understand why such communications could not be released in a redacted affidavit while protecting more sensitive sections.
Previous leaks discussed various undisclosed facts that are presumably part of the affidavit, including the government was seeking vital nuclear weapons materials and then how video camera evidence outside of the Mar-a-Lago storage area led the FBI to act without delay.
The latest leak to to the New York Times offers details on what was gathered from Mar-a-Lago. Officials state that they collected more than 150 documents marked as classified in January with another 150 being gathered in June and then in the August raid.
Washington has long floated on a sea of leaks but this is notable in that the government is opposing even modest disclosures from the court while it has steadily leaked details to its own advantage. It undermines the credibility of the government and raises questions of the motivations behind the absolute secrecy claims.
The level of detail is extraordinary including the very account of past dealings that some of us have argued could be released in the affidavit as well as the contents of the boxes. The leaks describe the June meeting in Mar-a-Lago and reveals that Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterespionage section of the national security division of the Justice Department, met with two of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb. He then went through the boxes himself to identify classified material. (The Trump motion this week also described this meeting with Bratt, which again raises why the same information in the affidavit cannot be disclosed).
This information is likely contained in the affidavit, which the Justice Department claimed could not be released without harming its investigation and endangering national security.
The New York Times story then affirms the position of the Justice Department as proven by the leaks.
“[T}he extent to which such a large number of highly sensitive documents remained at Mar-a-Lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when Mr. Trump left office, suggested to officials that the former president or his aides had been cavalier in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators, or both.”
It is litigation by leak where the government prevents others (including the target) from seeing key representations made to the court while releasing selective facts to its own advantage. It shows utter contempt for the court and the public. The question is whether the court will take note of this series of leaks. Most judges do not like to be played so openly and publicly by government officials. Moreover, the leaks should push Garland to reverse course as suggested in a recent column and order substantive disclosures in the affidavit in light of the government’s prior leaks.
You dont have to work in medicine to know Americans are hurting. The politicians live in their own self-absorbed priorities, driven by power, fame and money. Americans by and large have far different priorities.
Biden’s elitist defenders are despised by hurting Americans, for good reason. No amount of medications, medical appointments or hospitalizations can come close to addressing the hurt that Americans currently express. Medicine as an industry is also failing: EMR, algorithms, call centers, loss of physician-patient relationship, and months long wait lists all portend a bad omen for Americans. Fauci’s lockdowns have done an enormous amount of harm, and we still do not know the half of it yet, likely never will.
Meanwhile Biden builds a half-million dollar fence around a vacation home for himself, Jill and Hunter, throws millions more on yet another trip to his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, and has a garrison of secret service personnel nearby while he teeters on a bicycle on the beach sand, all for show. The lack of insight his handlers have on these optics nulls the talking points of their sanctimonious dogmas re: “diversity, equity, inclusion”.
Americans deserve better than these moral scolds.
In U.S., Poor Life Ratings Reach Record High
https://news.gallup.com/poll/397286/poor-life-ratings-reach-record-high.aspx
The “suffering” rate has climbed for both Democrats and Republicans
The percentage of adults classified as “thriving” has dropped again, to 51.2%
Daily stress and worry remain steady and near pre-pandemic levels
Daily Stress and Worry Climb Higher Than One Year Ago
Dovetailing with economic headwinds is a rising discontentment with U.S. moral values, which has reached a record high, with 50% of Americans reporting the state of moral values is “poor” and 37% “only fair,” a sentiment that could be negatively influencing life ratings generally.
Estovir,
Well said.
Well, I accessed the file in the case styled “In the Matter of the Search of Mar-a-Lago,” case no. 22-cv-81294-AMC, and downloaded the initial pleading, a “Motion for Judicial Oversight and Additional Relief.” I also endured the drudgery of reading that document so that you won’t have to. Indeed, don’t bother. I’m not even sure how to describe it other than as 22 pages of stream of consciousness whining on behalf of the ‘Movant,” identified as “President Donald J. Trump.” And all this time I had been thinking that he left that office some 18 months ago.
The motion meanders without benefit of numbered paragraphs, jurisdiction or venue allegations, coherent assertions of applicable law or any of the other expected elements of a complaint, such as a short and plain statement of material fact. It is, to steal a phrase, an exercise in legal argle bargle, simultaneously sad and laughable. It is almost as though Mr. Trump dictated a lengthy statement of perceived wrongs, arranged for its transcription and badgered his legal team, such as it is, to sign it.
I have no idea what the assigned judge will do with it, although I certainly have several unprintable suggestions. It is an embarrassment. No wonder Mr. Trump stiffs his lawyers.
IF COMEY HAD CHARGED HILLARY, COMEY WOULD HAVE CONVICTED OBAMA
“To protect Obama and Clinton, sanitize the language”
“Throughout Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation are lots of strange things. One of the weirdest is the extent to which the FBI went to make up words and phrases to disguise reality. An early draft of the 2016 FBI report on the email scandal was reportedly subjected to linguistic surgery to exonerate the former secretary of state, who at the time was the Democratic nominee for president. Clinton was originally found to be “grossly negligent” in using an illegal email server. That legalistic phrase is used by prosecutors to indict for violation of laws governing the wrongful transmission of confidential government documents. Yet the very thought of a likely President Hillary Clinton in court so worried the chief investigator, FBI Director James Comey, that he watered down “grossly negligent” to the mere “extremely careless.” FBI investigators also had concluded that it was “reasonably likely” foreign nations had read Clinton’s unsecured emails. Comey intervened to mask such a likelihood by substituting the more neutral word “possible.”
Former President Barack Obama was found to have improperly communicated with Clinton over her illegal server while she was in a foreign country. Obama had denied that fact by falsely claiming that he never knew of her server until much later, after it was publicized. The FBI hierarchy under Comey tried to hide the embarrassing details of Obama’s conduct. As a result, the FBI deleted Obama’s name from its report. In its place, the FBI inserted the laughable “another senior government official” — as if the president of the United States was just another Washington grandee who had improperly communicated on an illicit email server. According to Comey’s congressional testimony, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch ordered him not to use the supposedly incriminating noun “investigation” in connection with his investigation of the Clinton emails. Instead, she instructed Comey to use the benign-sounding “matter.” One of the oddest mysteries of the IG report is the FBI’s delay in addressing the fact that disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner had a number of Clinton’s private emails on his unsecured laptop. They were all forwarded to him by his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton. Their Washington-insider marriage had been widely publicized. Yet Comey, the nation’s premier public investigator, claimed he had no idea that Weiner and Abedin were married. Comey would have the inspector general believe that Abedin had forwarded numerous emails from Clinton, some of them classified, to a mere acquaintance. Stranger still, Comey asserted his ignorance of the Weiner-Abedin marriage in an Orwellian manner: “I don’t know that I knew that Weiner was married to Huma Abedin at the time.” Translated, that means Comey claimed that he was not sure at one point that he was sure at another point that Weiner was married to Abedin, at least at the time when the emails came to his attention. Therefore, he did not act as he should have.”
– Chicago Tribune, Jun 21, 2018 (Condensed)
I thought Lincoln was responsible for both Hillary and Donald’s problems with Federal records! 😀
No, no, no. Lincoln is responsible for putting America on Karl Marx’s path – Lincoln was a republican before the pole shift, when republicans were liberals.
Lincoln nullified the Constitution and commenced the progressive journey to the incremental implementation of the principles of communism (why Buydumb just forgave a large portion of student loan debt today as sort of the cherry on top, oh, and to purchase the votes of people who are too young to vote in any case).
And thanks for reading…again; you’re going to be my best student.
Abraham Lincoln was Karl Marx’s “…earnest of the epoch…” leading America toward “…the RECONSTRUCTION of a social world,” according to the man himself, Karl Marx.
Marx’s letter of congratulation and commendation to Lincoln: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
Lincoln espoused Marx’s pejoratives “capitalist” and “fleece the people” in 1837.
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“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
– Abraham Lincoln, from his first speech as an Illinois state legislator, 1837
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“Everyone now is more or less a Socialist.”
– Charles Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune, and Lincoln’s assistant secretary of war, 1848
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“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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“The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.”
– Karl Marx and the First International Workingmen’s Association to Lincoln, 1864
Do you have a link?
Justice Lies in the Eyes of the Beholder
As there is still a heated exchange about legal issues about an early stage case: Pause for a while, and ask two lawyers about the outcome of a simple case, you might hear some IFs in their answer.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-warrant-had-no-legal-basis-mar-a-lago-affidavit-presidential-records-act-archivist-custody-classified-fbi-garland-11661170684?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
Here’s 100% proof that Trump is an absolute moron.
“ This Mar-a-Lago Break-in Search, And Seizure was illegal and unconstitutional, and we are taking all actions necessary to get the documents back, which we would have given to them without the necessity of the despicable raid of my home, so that I can give them to the National Archives until they are required for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Museum,” Trump said on Monday in a press release posted on Truth Social.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-claims-he-needs-white-house-records-back-so-he-can-eventually-add-them-to-his-presidential-library/ar-AA110WjI?cvid=9946e47b5c6f425ca8d7db4f2f638c6e
He’s an idiot. He’s definitely going to jail.
Your assertion will be soon proven wrong. The tag you gave him is on you. Your I.Q. Test will be below average….take one.
It is clear, you have huge mental problem? I am wery sorry for you.
I had a long career working with TS/SCI materials in military signals intelligence, first active duty in the Air Force, later in the Naval Reserve. I remember being shocked when the media reported about Soviet radiocommunications about the shootdown of the Korean airliner, since that was precisely the sort of intelligence I had been dealing with, and that we had been told never to reveal. But the media reporting made it clear that this information could be reported, because any information that the President authorizes the release of is automatically declassified.
Lysias,
Almost every day someone pops up on these threads claiming to have professional expertise regarding the subject at hand. And coincidentally their ‘knowledge’ always dovetails with common rightwing talking points parrotted by commenters on these threads; most of which are posted by just one man.
“[E]very day”, anon uses deflection and ad hominem.
Anon needs new tools of deceit.
Is it also a tool of deceit when you insult people?
Listen to this guy. If you’re sane, he should make you sick.
Go back and watch some movies from before the past fifteen years and see how drastically things have changed and how bizarre America has truly become. It is stunning and it is sad.
I used to wonder why all the futuristic movies were post apocalyptic. Now, I understand. Those who call themselves leaders have sunk to a new low. Much of the world think we have lost our collective minds.
I wish it were that simple, but when one connects the dots, the bigger picture is an orchestrated attempt to take down this nation by dividing the citizens. A community organizer? Or something or someone much larger.
One thing for certain, they are experts at propaganda and gaslighting.
Sadly true and wrong.The rest of the world does not think you have lost yoru minds,because it is happening everywhere in the West. Places like the UK are even worse at this point.
Does any form of estoppel apply to the government’s arguments that this information must remain sealed?
*Prof. TURLEY, usually reluable, is wrong on this one. The leaked info first appeared in Just the News, a website run by a Trump acolyte. So it’s the Trump team, not DOJ, that is litigating by leak.
Aren’t you cute? I guess it is the total cluelessness that makes you so cute.
To call John Soloman a Trump acolyte is the very definition of willful ignorance. That’s the result of reading headlines. A small core of leftist journalists that are busy reporting the news straight up, are getting labled as conservative, It does not parrot the emotive leftist dogma, so it seems to be slanted. But Straight up news is conservative. It’s a lot like People here calling Turley right wing, when he is only guilty of following the Constitution. Not unusual that adherence to the Constitution and its principles, is falsely labeled by the left, as conservative.
John Soloman is a Trump ally. He “leaked” that letter stupidly thinking it would help Trump.
It’s becoming quite clear that for majority of trump supporters and enablers don’t understand what they are doing. They have no clue what the law says about Trump’s possession of those documents as illegal and the criminal charges that he faces.
Which letter? Leaking from government agencies are leaks of information that is withheld. Frequently such leaks are untrue. Refer back to the Russia hoax, Steele Dossier, etc.
If Trump has something not confidential providing the document is not a leak, it represents transparency.
John Solomon is a reporter – reporters do not “leak” things – they report things – sometimes things that are leaked to them.
Do those of you on the left have to mangle the definition of every word ?
Trump is a private party – he is free to make public his interactions with govenrment – or anyone else – or not as he choses.
The right to keep those interactions secret – or not, is Trump’s – not governments.
If Trump published a letter on Truth Social, if he gave it to Solomon to publish.
All legal, all not leaking.
DOj.FBI have lost the trust of independants – those are not Trump supporters.
It’s becoming quite clear that for majority of left wing nuts don’t understand what they are doing – or saying, They have no clue what the law says about Trump’s possession of those documents – that they do not understand what illegal means.
Whether you like it or not – you have lost the debate on the law,
You are losing the the support of the people.
The Biden administration is very effectively assuring that Trump will be the republican nominee in 2024.
Fmr Asst US Atty in CT said this AM on WTIC radio that Trump’s Executive Privilege “removed by Biden” is “Outrageous”. Just reporting. FL cop called it “gestapo-like”. Again, just reporting. ABC NBC CNN WAPO have long stopped being objective. Maybe we ALL lose her. Watching……
Jonathan wrote…
These points as concluding opinions are fabulous!
Except that, Turley doesn’t know that the leak came from the government, so the entire foundation of his “fabulous opinions” is fatally flawed. Most likely, the leakers were witnesses or even staff at Mar A Lago.
If not leaked by the government, then whom? How would staff know the contents of the documents? Weren’t they classified and top secret? If not leaked by government officials, then that shows incompetence on the part of those who raided Trump’s residence and were entrusted to keep the materials safe. If the materials, documents, etc. were allowed to be seen and investigated by those who do not have clearance, then that undermines how confidential and “top secret” the documents were in the first place…
It could have been leaked by Trump, who apparently make the May NARA letter public by giving it to John Solomon.
Trump choosing to share protected info with people who lacked the clearances for them is one of the things that’s likely being investigated. For example, that might be the reason that the government subpoenaed video of the “secure” room, to see who’d been granted entry.
Trump choosing to share protected info with people who lacked the clearances for them is one of the things that’s likely being investigated.
But first Trump choose to declassify those documents.
As you’ve been told before: with national defense information, it’s still restricted even if it’s been declassified.
Aside from which, Trump is a pathological liar, has no paperwork to back up his claim, didn’t claim this when the DOJ sought the documents earlier, and has not made any statement about it under oath now (you do know that he could submit a statement under oath now if he wanted to, right?). And did you notice that in the motion Trump’s lawyers filed on Monday, they didn’t claim that he’d declassified the documents?
“It could have been leaked by Trump . . .”
The *subject* is docs leaked to the *NYT*.
Please tell me you’re not suggesting that Trump leaked those docs to the *NYT*. That’s too delusional, even for you.
“ Please tell me you’re not suggesting that Trump leaked those docs to the *NYT*. That’s too delusional, even for you.”
But Trump is a stable genius. He could have done that fo fool his followers into thinking it’s not credible. 🤔
Nothing ca be “leaked” by Trump.
He is a private citizen and has no obligation to keep his interactions with those in government secret.
Secrecy during a criminal investigation is a right SOLELY of the defendant.
Conclusions to the facts as presented. Its called inference.
Merrick Garland is an empty suit who has no control over the office of Attorney General. These leaks to major media (Democrat-leaning liberal media only ) are unforgiveable, yet no one will be held accountable, least of all AG Garland. Did James Comey feel any heat over leaking information to a ‘friend’ so that the Mueller probe became legitimized….no – he had a book tour and a chushy lifestyle as his punishment. Garland and the leakers need to be fired at a minimum.
Jonathan: “Someone is clearly lying”. I would agree with your assessment but you are directing your charge against the wrong parties. It was Trump who lied when he claimed the FBI “planted” evidence. He lied when he said he was “fully cooperating” with the National Archives and the FBI in returning top secret documents. Trump lied when he said had declassified all the docs he took back to Mar-a-Lago and lied by saying all the docs were “mine”. Everything Trump has said about the search, except for saying the FBI took his three passports (now returned), has been a lie.
Now Don Jr. has come up with his own doozey. He thinks it was a “good” idea if his dad held on to the nuclear launch codes: “By the way, for the record, I’d say if Donald Trump actually still had the nuclear codes, it’d probably be good. Our enemies might actually be like, ‘OK, maybe let’s not mess with them’…”. Does Don Jr. know something the rest of us, including the FBI, don’t know? Perhaps, another search warrant is in order?
On Thursday, I believe, Judge Reinhart might unseal a redacted version of the affidavit. That should answer all your Qs about “leaks” from the DOJ and its “utter contempt for the court and the public”. Right?
Your problem Dennis is that you use words and phrases that end up not being true. Provide the quotes of what you think was said. Then we can compare them to what you said. I think we will see to different things for each item.
Anonymous: Your problem “Anonymous” is that you want to be anonymous. Why don’t you just use your real name, like I do, so there will be no confusion between you and the other “Anonymous” who actually has something of value to add to this chatroom. What are you afraid of by not using your real name? My wife doesn’t complain about the time I spend in this chatroom. She says it’s my way of “venting” so she doesn’t have to listen to me ranting about Turley’s latest column over the breakfast table. What’s your excuse?. As to your claim that I use “words and phrases that end up not being true” to what are you referring? The quote from Don Jr.? My source is a Huffpost column by Josephine Harvey (8/22/22) where she quotes a statement Don Jr. made at a Monday campaign event for Matt Gaetz. If you think Harvey misquoted Don Jr. please explain. I don’t use “words and phrases” unless I can back them up. How about you?
There are people in Donald Trumps household right now who are spies and a threat to the Trumps.
The full unredacted affidavit is a necessary security issue.
Evil triumphs while good men do nothing. Are there any ethical standards left at all that this DOJ won’t breach.
The perfidious backstabber, Mick Mulvaney, spread propaganda on CNN today.
Mick, how do you sleep at night?
Comey gets nauseous thinking “…we might have had some impact on the election.”
Poor thing.
Mick Mulvaney must get nauseous thinking about himself as a dissembling fraud.
HEIL BIDEN!
Where the —- is the Supreme Court and greater judicial branch, all of the members of which swore an oath to support the clear meaning and intent of the Constitution.
Americans are provided maximal freedom by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Here’s the full extent of the powers of your government:
Article 1, Section 8, allows taxation for, and the funding of, ONLY debt, defense and infrastructure (i.e. general Welfare – All Well Advance).
The same article allows regulation of ONLY the value of money, commerce among the States and land and Naval forces.
The 5th Amendment right to private property is not qualified by the Constitution and is, therefore, absolute; it provides owners the sole power to “claim and exercise” dominion.
The massive collectivist government is unconstitutional.
It requires a Gestapo, run by SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Merrick Garland, to enforce its illicit dictatorship and ruthlessly suppress its opposition.
keep in mind, James Comey vis a vis Barack Obama’s boot licker, exonerated Hillary of everything. If Trump is guilty of committing serious crimes with his boxes and alleged classified info, then Hillary should have been in prison years ago. She of course did not go to prison for violating the Espionage Act and Obstruction of Justice. Nor should anyone else who did what Hillary / Obama did so flagrantly and unapologetically.
It is beyond parody that Biden’s handlers expect Americans to believe they are ethical, honorable, law abiding professionals. Merrick Garland has shown us with this buffoonery raid that our nation is run by a pack of hyenas.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/267722-state-dept-tried-to-make-standalone-network-for-clinton/
State Department tried to make ‘stand-alone’ network for Clinton
02/01/16
The State Department proposed creating a “stand-alone” computer operating on a separate network for Hillary Clinton shortly after she took the helm as the nation’s top diplomat in 2009, according to newly released emails.
Days after Clinton was sworn in as secretary of State, department official Lewis Lukens offered to give her a computer that would be “connected to the internet (but not through our system) to enable her to check emails from her desk.”
{mosads}“The stand-alone seperate [sic] network PC is on on [sic] great idea,” Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy responded in a Jan. 24, 2009, email.
“Yes we were hoping for that if possible so she can check her email in her office,” agreed Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide and her deputy chief of staff at the time.
The State Department never set up a separate computer for Clinton, spokesman John Kirby said.
Still, the emails appear to indicate that State Department officials went out of their way to accommodate Clinton’s unusual email setup, which involved the exclusive use of a private email account housed on a personal server.
Critics of Clinton’s arrangement have asked the State Department to clarify whether officials expressly permitted her private email account and server.
Monday’s emails were revealed by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, which has filed multiple lawsuits aimed at bringing Clinton’s emails to light.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton called the messages “shocking” and said that it was “scandalous” for the Obama administration not to have previously released them.
“They show the Obama State Department’s plan to set up non-government computers and a computer network for Hillary Clinton to bypass the State Department network,” Fitton said in a statement.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/official-withheld-clinton-emails-contain-operational-intel-put-lives-at-risk
Official: Withheld Clinton emails contain ‘operational’ intel, put lives at risk
April 28, 2016
Highly classified Hillary Clinton emails that the intelligence community and State Department recently deemed too damaging to national security to release contain “operational intelligence” – and their presence on the unsecure, personal email system jeopardized “sources, methods and lives,” a U.S. government official who has reviewed the documents told Fox News.
The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record and was limited in discussing the contents because of their highly classified nature, was referring to the 22 “TOP SECRET” emails that the State Department announced Friday it could not release in any form, even with entire sections redacted.
We’ve seen this movie before; multiple sequels to the original and a made-for-tv miniseries. The alleged villain hasn’t changed. And the same cast of characters that are courageously deploying all their weapons to rid humanity of this threat, once and for all. In all of the previous productions, we learn the alleged villain was actually a victim of an unscrupulous cabal that saw their “villain” as a threat to their very existence. The audience saw, despite all of the cabal’s efforts, that the villain was actually working tirelessly to improve their lives and make the world a safer place. This theme of America First convinced millions in the audience that the cabal was the villain and the cabal was not just a threat to the alleged villain, but more importantly it was a threat to them and their existence.
This “Get Trump” franchise may finally show the cabal getting their boogeyman, but they have completely misread what the audience desires. First and foremost, they want the America First life the cabal is fighting against. And getting Trump will only enhance that desire.
excellent analysis that seems to agree with Professor Turley’s analysis on the DOJ leaks to the media
DoJ leak to NYT: Trump had 300-plus classified documents at Mar-a-Lago
ED MORRISSEY Aug 23, 2022
That’s not to say that the issue is somehow marginal. Classified material at that level relates to sources, methods, and knowledge that can be deeply damaging to national security if it gets out. That’s why this was such an issue with Hillary Clinton, who not only retained thousands of classified documents in digital form but also transmitted and stored them on an unsecured e-mail server in Chappaqua. Clinton instructed underlings to strip classification markers off of such documents in order to facilitate that transmission at times, and the material exposed also included “special access program materials”, ie, Top Secret and Compartmented information. The FBI allowed Clinton to purge the server before handing it over after a long, drawn-out conflict over it and then declined to enforce the same laws in question here.
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But it looks verrry curious that the DoJ felt a raid was necessary at Mar-a-Lago over static documents in a known (if insufficient) storage facility under security surveillance, when it never bothered to execute a search warrant for Clinton’s server even after more than four years of transmitting and exposing the same level of classified material. And it also looks veeeeerrrry curious indeed that the same DoJ that insists that the affidavit that got a federal magistrate to issue the warrant has to remain secret is simultaneously leaking all sorts of self-serving info to media outlets to justify its actions.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/08/23/doj-leak-to-nyt-trump-had-300-plus-classified-documents-at-mar-a-lago-n491649
The “Get Trump” franchise thinks the audience is stupid. They established the rules of legal reality with how they handled the Clinton case. Then, when they embarked on their “Get Trump” production, they suspended the reality of those rules and simply expected no one would notice or care. Those not living in a fantasy world care.
Litigation by leak. Yet, the DOJ and FBI can’t understand why few people have trust in them?
“It shows utter contempt for the court and the public.” Professor Turley nailed it.
“The question is whether the court will take note of this series of leaks. Most judges do not like to be played so openly and publicly by government officials.” Not sure if in this case the good professor has considered the Judge’s own, well-known disdain for the accused and might perhaps be more inline with government’s efforts than securing the rights of the accused.
So now on this blog we have a criminal defense lawyer saying that the content of affidavits are never released in a criminal case. However, he has no problem with the contents of the affidavit being leaked to the press. If you have been accused of a crime I would steer clear of using Seamus to present your defense because he would have no problem with the prosecution selectively leaking information to the press concerning your preconceived guilt. Saul would do a better job of complaining about government demonization of his client than Seamus.
Seamus is a paid troll who uses multiple sock puppet accounts to distract from Turley’s arguments and call attention to Seamus’ personal talking points, provided by his handlers at DNC sponsor Act Blue. Not only is Seamus not an attorney, he is in desperate need of enrolling at UCLA – West Hollywood campus, “Creative Writing” program. All of his sock puppet accounts use the same sophomoric sentence structure, word utilization and alas same exact derogatory insults. Not too bright that one. Heck, when we were kids and made crank calls on the telephone (land line, rotary dial phones), we at least knew to use a handkerchief on the speaking end of the phone to muffle our voices!
Stop reading the attacks by the paid trolls. Like CNN, Lawrence Tribe, James Carville, et al, their one and only goal is to take control of the narrative. Put your big boy boots on and stop being manipulated by these adolescent minded trolls. I can deal with them but your being toyed by them is embarrassing.
You sound like as much of a nut as the guy who accuses everyone of being a sockpuppet for *you*.
Just with the IRS’s new approx 100k & Klaus Schwab’s UN’s WEF’s 100k & thew 5-10 million military age invaders/illegals men that all adds up to far more then most any Army in the world.
Yet most people don’t know they are under attack & subject to possible harm by Biden/them.
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